Red & Black Marbled Vinyl version....Fresh impressive Soul / RnB from London....."Hackney-raisedJerome Thomas is declaring the dawning of a new age forBritish soul music" Working with a live 6 piece band of assortedages and musical backgrounds from rock to classical jazz,Jerome’s sound is a 180 degree turn from the direction of travelof UK R&B which has trended towards producers tracks madeinside the computer. Jerome composes the pieces, then allowsspace for interaction with his long term musical collaborators.The ‘organic decisions’ open up the scope of his music as theyjam and record. The result is a sound that could been made inthe 70s, the 90s or the 00s. He’s the new blood of thesophisticated British sound that traces back to artists like MicaParis, Soul II Soul and Omar.
Like 1% of the population, he has a stutter, which disrupts thefluent flow of his speech. The stutter disappears when he sings,freeing his voice as it’s transformed into an instrument. As anintroverted, intuitive Pisces, the songwriting process lets himexplore and express his internal cosmos; “a lot of my songs arelike diary entries addressed to people I haven’t been able to talkto or speaking about desires I am too embarrassed to talkabout”. Jerome describes his sound using the acronym FOE,standing for “Freedom of Expression” and “Fusion OfEverything”. His music is a space for him to dissolve boundariesand binaries.
